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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6419200" data-attributes="member: 22779">Why would you claim we don't know this?  Or are you now claiming that players who play entirely in Pawn stance, not assuming any roll at the table are the mainstream of play?I'd say we have a pretty decent idea how the mainstream of players play.  But, even without knowing how the game is being played at a given table, we should still be able to look at the rules themselves and figure out what the game is about.  Again, you are going in a very strange direction here.  Why would you insist on including "how we play the game" in a definition of game genre?  Why can't we simply look at the game itself?I don't care how people are playing the game.  It's pretty hard to know that.  I care about what the game says it's trying to do.</blockquote>